Welcome to the numdifftools’ documentation!
This is the documentation of Numdifftools version 0.11.1 released Sep 02, 2026.
Bleeding edge available at: https://github.com/pbrod/numdifftools.
Official releases are available at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Numdifftools.
Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tutorials
- 3. How-to guides
- 3.1. How to create virtual environments for python with conda
- 3.1.1. Check conda is installed and in your PATH.
- 3.1.2. Check conda is up to date.
- 3.1.3. Create a virtual environment for your project.
- 3.1.4. Activate your virtual environment.
- 3.1.5. Install additional Python packages to a virtual environment.
- 3.1.6. Deactivate your virtual environment.
- 3.1.7. Delete a no longer needed virtual environment.
- 3.1.8. Related info.
- 3.2. Contributing
- 3.1. How to create virtual environments for python with conda
- 4. Topics guides
- 4.1. Introduction derivative estimation
- 4.2. Numerical differentiation of a general function of one variable
- 4.3. Unequally spaced finite difference rules
- 4.4. Odd and even transformations of a function
- 4.5. Complex step derivative
- 4.6. High order derivative
- 4.7. Richardson extrapolation methodology applied to derivative estimation
- 4.8. Multiple term Richardson extrapolants
- 4.9. Uncertainty estimates for Derivative
- 5. Reference
- 5.1. Numdifftools summary
- 5.2. Numdifftools package details
- 5.2.1. numdifftools.tests package
- 5.2.2. numdifftools.core module
- 5.2.3. numdifftools.extrapolation module
- 5.2.4. numdifftools.finite_difference module
- 5.2.5. numdifftools.fornberg module
- 5.2.6. numdifftools.limits module
- 5.2.7. numdifftools.multicomplex module
- 5.2.8. numdifftools.nd_algopy module
- 5.2.9. numdifftools.nd_scipy module
- 5.2.10. numdifftools.nd_statsmodels module
- 5.2.11. numdifftools.step_generators module
- Changelog
- [0.11.1] - 2026-09-02
- [0.11.0] - 2026-09-01
- [0.10.1] - 2026-08-12
- [0.9.42] - 2025-12-11
- [0.9.41] - 2022-11-10
- [0.9.40] - 2021-06-02
- [0.9.39] - 2019-06-10
- [0.9.38] - 2019-06-10
- [0.9.20] - 2017-01-11
- [0.9.19] - 2017-01-11
- [0.9.18] - 2017-01-11
- [0.9.17] - 2016-09-08
- [0.9.14] - 2015-11-10
- [0.9.13] - 2015-10-30
- [0.9.12] - 2015-08-28
- [0.9.11] - 2015-08-27
- [0.9.10] - 2015-08-26
- [0.9.4] - 2015-08-26
- [0.9.3] - 2015-08-23
- [0.9.2] - 2015-08-20
- [0.9.1] - 2015-08-20
- [0.7.7] - 2014-12-18
- [0.7.3] - 2014-12-17
- [0.6.0] - 2014-02-08
- [0.5.0] - 2014-01-10
- [0.4.0] - 2012-05-05
- [0.3.5] - 2011-05-19
- [0.3.4] - 2011-02-24
- [0.3.1] - 2009-05-20
- Contributors
- License
- Acknowledgments
- Indices and tables
- Bibliography